Instrumentalists

Fabrizio Ottaviucci graduated with honours in the piano from the Pesaro Conservatory under the guidance
of Paola Mariotti; he also studied Composition and Electronic Music. He has given concerts in the most important cities
in Italy and Germany and has toured in the USA, Canada, Britain, Spain and India. He has been invited several
times to renowned festivals and events such as Festival Pontino, Rassegna Nuova Musica Macerata, Milano Musica,
"Traiettorie" Parma, Accademia S.Cecilia, Nuova Consonanza Roma, Evento Suono Pesaro, Amici della
Musica Palermo, Centro d'Arte Padova, S.Maternus Koln, Tonhalle Dǘsseldorf, etc. His activity in contemporary
music is particularly important: he has collaborated with acclaimed partners such as Rohan De Saram,
Stefano Scodanibbio, Mario Caroli, Manuel Zurria, Francesco Dillon Aldo  Campagnari, Tara Bouman  and
Markus Stockhausen with whom he has collaborated intensively since 1986 also on traditional repertories.
He has given first-ever performances of works by the composers Stefano Scodanibbio, Tonino Tesei, Fernando Mencherini, Ivan Vandor, Gilberto Cappelli, Aleberto Caprioli. He has studied piano works with Giacinto Scelsi.
He is also active on the level of experimentation and has given concerts with Gary Peacock, Robin Schulkoswky, Paolo Giaro, Mark Naussef and Cony Bauer.
He has recorded for ECM (Munich), CMP (Cologne), AMIATA (Florence), SPLASH (Milan), WISTERIA (Amsterdam),
AKTIVRAUM (Cologne) and STRADIVARIUS; several concerts have been recorded and broadcast by Rai Radio 3.
He lives in Assisi, where he is the director of the project "laboratorio di musica intuitiva".

"…to a sound of rare transparency he adds an absolutely enchantingly fluent metrical scansion" (Mario Bortolotto
"Amadeus")

"…a great virtuoso, he is not one to play anything as an exercise rather than in the accomplished manner of a
composer" (Mario Gamba "Il manifesto")